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Larry Ogle recently was appointed director of development for Hospice of Central Florida.Ogle, a Winter Park resident, also will serve as executive director of the Hospice of Central Florida Foundation, which raises money for the agency's programs.Before joining Hospice, Ogle spent seven years managing fund-raising campaigns collecting almost $30 million for a variety of non-profit organizations. Ogle also has served as a lobbyist and executive director for several non-profit groups in Lake County.

By Christine Cole and Special To The Orlando Sentinel, February 9, 2010

Chilly winds took a small bite out of the attendance at the 35th Annual Mount Dora Arts Festival. But the festival still drew between 250,000 and 275,000 people over the weekend, police Sgt. Marie Shelton said. "The event was very well attended," Shelton said. "But it was not the banner year we had last year." Attendance at the 2009 festival, which enjoyed perfect weather, was estimated at 300,000. Christina Smith, executive co-chairwoman of the Mount Dora Center for the Arts, which stages the event, said smaller crowds do not hurt the festival.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Drivers ogling attractive women rather than paying attention to the road is the second-leading cause of car accidents in the country. The cell phone was the biggest distraction for drivers, accounting for about 10 percent of all accidents, according to research by the Road Safety Fund, a private organization. Second was men staring at women, which accounted for nearly 5 percent of crashes.

By Rosalind Jennings, SPECIAL TO THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, January 26, 2010

TAVARES – The city is hoping to reel in visitors this week with a crappie fishing tournament and a food-tasting event. The main draw is the Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters tournament Friday and Saturday. From 140 to 200 anglers from more than a dozen states will compete for the Florida State Championship. The top team could win $5,000 to $8,000 or more depending on the size of the competition, said Paul Alpers, president of the Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters All American Tournament Trail.

MANASSAS, Va. - A former minister was convicted Monday of suggesting to a parishioner that they kill each other's wives. James Elrod Ogle entered a plea to charges of attempted capital murder and solicitation of a felony. The plea acknowledged that prosecutors have enough evidence for a conviction, though Ogle did not admit guilt. Ogle, 46, former pastor of the defunct Bull Run Bible Fellowship in Manassas, could get life in prison. Police said Ogle suggested to Scott Jinks that they commit murders for each other.

The luxury lakefront Overoaks project, planned to attract wealthy area buyers, instead will become a vacation resort marketed to out-of-town investors.Tate Ogle, president of B. Tate Ogle Development Corp. in Fort Lauderdale, shifted the project's marketing emphasis this month because local residents just aren't buying.''We had a different set of numbers about the market going into the project,'' said Ogle, who plans to start construction of the massive subdivision early next year.The 930-acre Overoaks community, on the south side of U.S. Highway 17-92 south of Kissimmee, initially was designed to appeal to both permanent residents and out-of-town investors who rent homes daily, weekly or monthly to tourists.

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA - A Coast Guard crew rescued a sailor Thursday who was too seasick to sail his boat away from the surf line.The 26-foot sailboat God Knows was anchored about 15 feet from the breaking surf and had started to drift as high tide approached about 10 a.m., the Coast Guard said. The captain, Scott Ogle of St. Augustine, was apparently suffering from flu-like symptoms and was seasick from staying onboard his vessel while it rocked in 8-foot seas.Seamen from the Coast Guard station Ponce Inlet rescued Ogle and helped get the sailboat back into safer waters.

A tiny part of the 930-acre proposed Overoaks luxury community will be put on the auction block today by federal banking authorities.Twenty-one acres will be sold to the highest bidder on the steps of the Osceola County Courthouse at 11 a.m. Those include a five-acre lot on which the Overstreet homestead sits and two commercial tracts, one three acres and another 13 acres.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will not be able to auction off another 650 acres of the development as it had planned because the developer last week filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code.

In the highlight (or is that Lowe-light?) of the celebrity legal watch last week, a former nanny for Rob Lowe took part in a dramatic, tear-filled press conference regarding her lawsuit -- that accuses the actor's wife of sexual harassment. Laura Boyce, former nanny to the Lowes, says Sheryl Lowe walked around naked in front of her and repeatedly made crude comments about her boyfriend's genitals. She also discussed her sex life with her husband in detail with Boyce, the lawsuit claims, and would ask intrusive questions about the nanny's sex life.

MONTVERDE -- Lake County's richest neighborhood attracted more than 45,000 visitors to ogle over its multimillion-dollar homes during the past six weeks. The Street of Dreams show, which ran through Sunday at Bella Collina, featured a one-time glimpse inside the ultra-upscale gated development planned for more than 800 homes off County Road 455. Eight expansive mansions were available for viewing, each priced between $3.1 million and almost $6 million. Organizers said Tuesday that attendance was the highest for any of the seven Street of Dreams events ever held in the Orlando area.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Drivers ogling attractive women rather than paying attention to the road is the second-leading cause of car accidents in the country. The cell phone was the biggest distraction for drivers, accounting for about 10 percent of all accidents, according to research by the Road Safety Fund, a private organization. Second was men staring at women, which accounted for nearly 5 percent of crashes.

Why call your movie Zathura? Everybody, everybody, is calling it Jumanji in Space. It's a special-effects-heavy fantasy that manages some neat riffs on sibling rivalry between explosions and attacks by demented robots. And if it's a bit violent and a bit potty-mouthed, well, Jumanji was too, 10 years ago. Of course we're more used to kids-in-peril, and the filmmakers perhaps think we're more into ogling underdressed, underage girls and hearing 10-year-olds quote rap's favorite "b" word than we were in 1995.

Today is a good day to be wealthy. Wait, let me clarify: Pretty much any day is a good day to be wealthy, but today is the first day in more than a decade that you can buy a new luxury car without paying a luxury tax. Actually, Wednesday was the first day, but some dealerships were closed. Here's why: On Jan. 1, 1991, the federal government began imposing a 10 percent tax on new automobiles that cost more than $30,000. The 10 percent applied to the amount over $30,000, so, for example, on a $70,000 car, you would pay the luxury tax on $40,000 -- which would be, obviously, $4,000.

Today we present an important breakthrough in the ongoing effort by research scientists to figure out what, if anything, men are thinking. But first, we have an important warning concerning a worrisome topic that is very much on our minds these days: pecan safety. This warning is based on an alarming report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The report concerns a Pacific, Mo., couple who -- like so many people -- kept a bucket of pecans in their garage. "Their visiting grandchildren like to feed the nuts to squirrels," explains the Post-Dispatch.

An ex-principal who had child molestation charges against him dropped earlier this year is being sued in civil court.In the suit, attorney William Ogle alleges that former Holy Redeemer Catholic School Principal John R. ''Jack'' Currie committed sexual battery by fondling a child's genitals.Ogle, a personal injury attorney from Ormond Beach, filed the complaint against Currie and his former employer, the Catholic Diocese of Orlando. The family is seeking unspecified damages in excess of $15,000.

After six years of tangling with federal banking authorities, JoAnn and Jennings Overstreet are dusting off their plans for an exclusive country club community called Overoaks.This time around, the project will be a scaled-down version of the one unveiled in 1983.The Overstreets previously were developing their land themselves. Now they are working with B. Tate Ogle Development Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, which plans to increase the number of homes on the 929-acre property and downsize the lots from a third-acre to less than a quarter-acre.

MIAMI -- You're in South Beach, and you want to see a celebrity or two. Sure. But remember, celebrities do not come cheaply. If you're going to wander into any restaurant with a big name, you're going to pay. Yes, there is Cameron Diaz at her Asian-inspired restaurant, Bambu, on Meridian Avenue, and Ricky Martin at his Casa Salsa, and Gloria Estefan at Larios on the Beach. (Even noncelebrity eats, such as the Cheeky Monkey, with its French-Creole cuisine and huge life-sized monkey portraits, can be pricey if you're hanging near the beach of America's Riviera.

The fate of five people accused of stealing millions of dollars from National Heritage Life Insurance Co. is now up to jurors.But in a rare decision, a federal judge has given them a week to rest from the nine-month trial before they return to Orlando to deliberate.``I'm nervous about this,'' U.S. District Judge Patricia Fawsett said Friday. ``This week I'll feel like a mother letting her child go out alone in the car for the first time.''Jurors told Fawsett they needed a break from the trial of two businessmen, two lawyers and a mortgage broker linked to the Orlando insurer, which was declared insolvent in 1995.